California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Van Horn v. Morgan, B233928 (Cal. App. 2012):
"To determine whether an injunction is mandatory or prohibitory, we 'examine the terms and effect of the injunction in order to discover its character. [Citation.]' [Citation.] 'The purpose of mandatory relief is to compel the performance of a substantive act or a change in the relative positions of the parties. [Citations.] By contrast, the prohibitive order seeks to restrain a party from a course of conduct or to halt a particular condition. [Citation.] The character of prohibitory injunctive relief, however, is not changed to mandatory in nature merely because it incidentally requires performance of an affirmative act. [Citation.]' [Citation.]" (People ex rel. Brown v. iMergent, Inc. (2009) 170 Cal.App.4th 333, 342.)
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